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Signs · Beginner

Gemini

Also called Gemini sign

The third sign; astrologers associate it with curiosity, talk and doing two things at once.

Astrologers associate Gemini with learning, conversation, versatility and restlessness. Ptolemy classed it a “bicorporeal” (double-bodied) sign. In the tropical zodiac the Sun is in Gemini from about 21 May to 20 June, the exact moment varying by a day from year to year.

How it is worked out
Tropical longitude 60° to 90°; element air, modality mutable, polarity yang; traditional ruler Mercury.
  • Kind: Tradition, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Air signs, Mutable signs, Polarity, Zodiac sign, Mercury

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